Quests & Challenges

9506

February 05, 2018 10:48:00

Pinkerlockes are a modified version of the original Nuzlocke, inspired by noodlesthing's Nuzlocke challenge. The original rule set can be found below, and the updated challenge thread is found here.

This is a personal thread to keep track of my own progress with this challenge. I will attempt to update it every day, and unlike my other threads you are more than welcome to comment if you like! I will be making my own modifications to some of the rules, which will be posted below the original set.

1) A death in the coliseum = that dragon must be exalted. This is the most essential rule of a nuzlocke.

2) All loot obtained in the coliseum is irrelevant, as is the loot obtained from gathering.

3) There are no restrictions about applying apparel to your dragons. Do whatever makes sense to you. Same goes for familiars.

4) Ping or message Coolkid if you take the challenge ;^D You don't actually have to but they'd love to see how it goes!

5) And, most crucially, all nuzlocke activity corresponds with the loot you obtain daily from Pinkerton's plundered pile!

Optional sentimental rule:

If a dragon reaches level 25 it "retires". It can join the ranks of your main lair.

Each Pinkerton's Pile item corresponds to what activity your dragons will partake in for that day.

Food = Coliseum time!

Plants: 10-20 matches
Insects: 20-30 matches
Seafood: 30-40 matches
Meat: 40-50 matches

Choose from one of these two rules:

Hardmode: You must select coliseum challengers in your lair using a random number generator. Then, select the coliseum arena that corresponds to the highest level dragon of that group (For a 'medium' mode, select the venue that is one tier down from that of highest level dragon). If your dragons level up while in an area, you can still stay there for the whole day. You can quit your battle streak at any time to regen health, and flee from battles if it is appropriate. Don't try do 50 matches in a row unless you want a wiped-out dragon!

OR

Easymode: Choose whichever team and venue you want and go for it. Running from battles, using health pots, and ending the battle streak is fine, as I explained above.

(These ranges can also be altered to suit your level of activity/personal preference.)

Note that there is currently a glitch in which Pinkerton mislabels materials as trinkets. If you obtain a "trinket" from Pinkerton, double check to make sure its not actually a material!

Materials: Do some writing for your nuzlocke. How does your new nuzlocke clan change and develop? What are your dragons like personality-wise? How do they get along? How do they die? Is there an antagonist in this nuzlocke, or are they merely struggling against the forces of nature? Write dragon bios! Make a blog, or a thread for your challenge in the creative forums! Write short stories or paragraphs, or add to one big one adventure!

Trinkets: Do some art for your nuzlocke! Digital or traditional, use whatever medium feels best for you. Draw deaths. Draw dragons. Draw humanized versions of your dragons (if that's your sort of thing). Draw familiars and dragons together. It doesn't have to be that good or elaborate. If you make a nuzlocke thread, post your art there.

Familiars: Buy the cheapest dragon in the auction house of a specific breed. Use a random number generator (between 1-14) to determine which breed you will get! (Optionally: attach the familiar to the new dragon.)

1. Fae
2. Guardian
3. Mirror
4. Pearlcatcher
5. Ridgeback
6. Tundra
7. Spiral
8. Imperial
9. Snapper
10. Wildclaw
11. Nocturne
12. Coatl
13. Skydancer
14. Bogsneak
15. Gaoler
16. Banescale

Apparel: Breed two of your dragons. The dragons you pick are up to you. You can also change one of the genes on a dragon, or use a scatterscroll if you are rich and crazy.

Note: You must flip a coin for each hatchling once they hatch. If tails, the dragon is dead and you must exalt it. This is in keeping with the origional Nuzlocke thread's rule, because I really like it.

Flip a coin.

Heads = DEATH STREAK
Tails = Nothing happens

DEATH STREAK Rules: Randomly select three dragons using a random number generator. Fight in the coliseum using the "food" rules 10 rounds consecutively (ie. you cannot leave that arena), quitting midway if a dragon dies. If you are using the easymode rules, switch to the hardmode rules for battlestones.

Using the method I detailed in the "familiar" possibility above, obtain a small number of dragons (I suggest 2 or 3). If they already have names, keep the name! If not, name them whatever you like. The challenge starts once all of the dragons, if they are hatchlings, grow into adulthood.

Alternatively, choose 2-3 existing dragons in your lair to participate. This has certain advantages (eliminates the need to wait for maturity and breeding cooldowns) but also some disadvantages (less random=less exciting).

You may want to "partition" your nuzlocke dragons away from your regular dragons so you don't get them mixed up.

If your dragon count falls to zero you have a few options:

1. Declare the challenge a "loss" and give up.

2. Wait for Pinkerton to drop a familiar.

3. Just say "welp" and buy another dragon from the AH without waiting for Pinkerton because you lack patience.

Last edited on Dec 10, 2019 16:01:38 by SarcasticHawke

[center][img]https://fontmeme.com/permalink/180205/9e6f35d499bbf1b30fb11712e75befe8.png[/img] [img]https://i.imgur.com/Io8rOZF.png[/img][/center] [font=Bodoni MT Condensed]In order to make this challenge better suited to my own tastes and skill level, I will be modifying a few of the original rules. Please note that I will be doing this challenge on easy mode. The new criteria are as follows: 1) You are allowed to purchase [b]whichever [/b]dragon you wish from the AH after rolling for its breed. This is to keep me attached to the characters I will be creating. If an ugly one dies, I am far less likely to care than if it was a gorgeous one. I can't help it if I'm rather shallow. 2) Instead of art, anytime a trinket drops I will be using my [b]gathering [/b]turns instead. All items found [b]can [/b]be utilized by the Nuzlocke dragons. Apparel and familiars can be equipped, chests can be opened, eggs can be hatched, and so forth. If I do decide to do art at some point instead, I will not be gathering that day. 3) Any [b]eggs [/b]found while Scavenging or fighting in the Coliseum can either be hatched or sold to fund a new dragon purchase. If I decide to sell the egg, I will use the familiar method to choose the new dragon's breed. If I decide to hatch the egg, I cannot give the hatchling a [b]primary [/b]gene until level 10, a [b]secondary [/b]gene until level 15, or a [b]tertiary [/b]gene until level 20. 4) Starting stones for purchased dragons can be edited [b]free of charge[/b] before they officially become a part of the Nuzlocke. This is to allow for more lore opportunities and a chance to get at least one mage and one fighter in the group. 5) All Nuzlocke dragons are distinguished by wearing a [b]Red Birdskull Wingpiece[/b]. This is partially because it is a cheap apparel to purchase, partially because red is the Hawke color, and partially because they match the Plague Doctor character I will be using for this Nuzlocke's lore. 5) In order to [b]win [/b]the Nuzlocke, all available dragons must reach level 25. This means that I will not be utilizing the optional retiring rule. The Nuzlocke is considered [b]lost [/b]if all dragons are dead. I may edit the winning conditions later, as depending on my luck I may have [b]far [/b]too many dragons to ever have a hope of getting them all maxed. 6) Actual Flight Rising lore will likely be [b]ignored[/b]. I don't follow the assigned descriptions of the dragon species, and I will not really be using much from canon aside from the deities and the world map. 7) I will be accepting all [b]potion [/b]and [b]battlestone [/b]donations. Any little bit helps! [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/jShWOj6.png[/img] [img]https://fontmeme.com/permalink/180205/a19ff840f01ea8d90d551fb528462149.png[/img] [img]https://78.media.tumblr.com/74b4c8385b0695a9fdab51f2205b7465/tumblr_nuw6hehhTN1rn9ge0o3_400.gif[/img][/center]

SarcasticHawke

9506

February 05, 2018 11:52:46

In order to make this challenge better suited to my own tastes and skill level, I will be modifying a few of the original rules. Please note that I will be doing this challenge on easy mode. The new criteria are as follows:

1) You are allowed to purchase whichever dragon you wish from the AH after rolling for its breed. This is to keep me attached to the characters I will be creating. If an ugly one dies, I am far less likely to care than if it was a gorgeous one. I can't help it if I'm rather shallow.

2) Instead of art, anytime a trinket drops I will be using my gathering turns instead. All items found can be utilized by the Nuzlocke dragons. Apparel and familiars can be equipped, chests can be opened, eggs can be hatched, and so forth. If I do decide to do art at some point instead, I will not be gathering that day.

3) Any eggs found while Scavenging or fighting in the Coliseum can either be hatched or sold to fund a new dragon purchase. If I decide to sell the egg, I will use the familiar method to choose the new dragon's breed. If I decide to hatch the egg, I cannot give the hatchling a primary gene until level 10, a secondary gene until level 15, or a tertiary gene until level 20.

4) Starting stones for purchased dragons can be edited free of charge before they officially become a part of the Nuzlocke. This is to allow for more lore opportunities and a chance to get at least one mage and one fighter in the group.

5) All Nuzlocke dragons are distinguished by wearing a Red Birdskull Wingpiece. This is partially because it is a cheap apparel to purchase, partially because red is the Hawke color, and partially because they match the Plague Doctor character I will be using for this Nuzlocke's lore.

5) In order to win the Nuzlocke, all available dragons must reach level 25. This means that I will not be utilizing the optional retiring rule. The Nuzlocke is considered lost if all dragons are dead. I may edit the winning conditions later, as depending on my luck I may have far too many dragons to ever have a hope of getting them all maxed.

6) Actual Flight Rising lore will likely be ignored. I don't follow the assigned descriptions of the dragon species, and I will not really be using much from canon aside from the deities and the world map.

7) I will be accepting all potion and battlestone donations. Any little bit helps!

Last edited on Jul 19, 2018 20:16:05 by SarcasticHawke

[center][img]https://fontmeme.com/permalink/180205/500224c0f89590176c67fb12a19adc0b.png[/img][/center] [font=Bodoni MT Condensed]As the plague decimates the land, a group of survivors has holed up in the Hewn City under the watch of a local Plague Doctor. Determined to find the cure, he enlists the help of a small band of misfits who are willing to go out into the dangers beyond the city and hunt for not only food and supplies, but answers as well...Will they be able to determine the cause of this disease? Or will they all succumb to its grasp? Please note that this section [b]DOES [/b]contain [b]SPOILERS [/b]for who has died and who is still alive. I found it most difficult and unorganized to keep all the dragons who have come and gone during the Nuzlocke on this singular post, and as such have edited it to show only the current cast. If you do not mind spoilers, feel free to check below! Otherwise, just skip past this section entirely.[/font] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/1bMxWNe.png[/img][/center] [columns][url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=39121181] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/391212/39121181_350.png[/img] [/url][nextcol] [img]https://i.imgur.com/YWDYP1n.png[/img] [font=Bodoni MT Condensed] [b]Name:[/b] Korcari [b]Occupation[/b]: Rogue [b]Mate[/b]: None [b]Background[/b]: A former scavenger, Korcari used to travel all across Sornieth to ply her family's goods. As a hatchling her mother abandoned her clutch to run off with a younger lover, and as such her father took her and her sister and joined up with a group of merchant caravans. All their schooling was thus received while traveling. Korcari learned a lot on the road, including how to fight and sneak undetected in and out of places she shouldn't have been. She learned the best places to scavenge for useful items and how to barter, how to avoid ancient traps and read numerous old languages. It wasn't long before most of the merchants came to her when they needed something. Whether it was to haggle with a particularly stubborn customer or delve into a newfound ruin to search for artifacts, the Imperial would do it gladly. Back then she still had a stomach for adventure and the thrill of danger. When the plague hit, it devastated their caravan. The local wolf packs had been growing restless and one night they ambushed the merchants as they sat by their fires. Korcari's sister, Fiora, was the first to go, having succumbed to the disease after getting bitten trying to fend them off. The Imperial had to watch as her sister shrieked and foamed, contorting her head to try and chew off the restraints they'd put her in. After the third day her father had to drive a knife through Fiora's heart to end her suffering... On the fourth, the rest of the caravan party finally succumbed as well. Korcari will never forget how many friends she had to slay that day...how many she had to fight in order to escape. Her father, brave Wildclaw that he was, had been injured during the first raid and told her to run while he held them off. Though she refused to leave him, Lobelio insisted, and the young Imperial eventually ran with tears in her eyes. His screams as he was torn apart still echo in her nightmares. Now, Korcari is a quiet Imperial who worked as a thief for hire for a time, until she met Keanu and Ronja in the Hewn City. Upon hearing Doctor Devorak's request for assistance, she resolved to join with them in order to help find a cure. No more dragons need die of this disease if she can help it.[/font][/columns] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/aNUn1ku.png[/img][/center] [columns][url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=39837932] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/398380/39837932_350.png[/img] [/url][nextcol] [img]https://i.imgur.com/YWDYP1n.png[/img] [font=Bodoni MT Condensed] [b]Name:[/b] Eileen [b]Occupation[/b]: Plague Doctor [b]Mate[/b]: N/A [b]Background[/b]: TBA[/font][/columns] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/aNUn1ku.png[/img] [columns][url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=29619994] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/296200/29619994_350.png[/img] [/url][nextcol] [img]https://i.imgur.com/YWDYP1n.png[/img] [font=Bodoni MT Condensed] [b]Name:[/b] Lux [b]Occupation[/b]: TBA [b]Mate[/b]: N/A [b]Background[/b]: TBA[/font][/columns] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/aNUn1ku.png[/img] [columns][url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=41876709] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/418768/41876709_350.png[/img] [/url][nextcol] [img]https://i.imgur.com/YWDYP1n.png[/img] [font=Bodoni MT Condensed] [b]Name:[/b] Rylan [b]Occupation[/b]: TBA [b]Mate[/b]: N/A [b]Background[/b]: Rylan is the kind of guy who snorts out bubbles when he laughs, and kisses his friends on the cheek goodbye. For this, he has earned the moniker "Rylan the Joyful". His father, Ambarc, had been a main founder of his birth clan, but...he only knew stories of him. He went to serve in the army right after Rylan hatched...and never returned. Rylan knew why he was born; his father wanted to leave one last gift to the clan he had made. Despite this, his mother told him that he didn't have to change the world or even a clan. He didn't have to be the best. He just had to be him. However, that was until the plague hit. It was nothing like the virulent strains of illness that already ran through the Rotrock Rim and its surrounding areas. This was something darker...something sinister that caused the minds of his clanmates to shatter as they writhed and screeched, turning them into mindless beasts filled with rage and an insatiable hunger for death. It was all he and his mother could do to rally their remaining clanmates and barricade themselves closer to the Wyrmwood. The days passed sleeplessly, the scent of fear and blood overwhelming in their tiny little camp. Slowly, one after another, he saw dragons and hatchlings alike begin to succumb to the foul illness, It was then when Rylan realized what he must do. In order to save his clan, he needed to leave it. Growing up, Rylan had always wanted to be what his father wanted of him; to make his clan better. However, staying at his home now meant he never could improve it like his father had before him. To make the clan mighty and give it blood and wings, he would have to leave it and find a cure. No longer wanting to be in his father's shadow and ready to fly away from home, Rylan groomed his mother's scales, nuzzled her neck, then left. It was a perilous journey: he had forgotten how dangerous it was to traverse the Abiding Boneyard alone. Especially now with those infected by the plague stalking through the sun-bleached skeletons... Fearing being lost to time, lost to eternity, he kept walking, desperate to find a new home. He couldn't find his way back from there. He was ready to do something, [i]anything[/i], to leave his mark. He didn't want to make it through all this and still be lost to eternity anyways. The days stretched and Rylan marked the path with his claws, despairing whenever he realized he had ended up circling back around. He tried to fix it until one day, he couldn't. All he had was the way his feet went, even if something told him they were going the wrong way, that the other way held the future. Yet what was he supposed to do? He was never going to make it. Giving up would be easier, but he wasn't ready for that either. Trying something new...could be done. When his mama's nest came into view a few days later, Rylan was a tired, happy dragon who eagerly ran to her and held her close. She was now one of only twelve survivors left of the once mighty clan. Settling down into his old nest that night, Rylan found that sleep would not come to him. He had failed. He had been unable to find a cure, to even find a source of this plague, and had instead almost died himself. The guardian was disgusted with himself. More weeks passed, when luck seemed to smile once more on the desperate clan. A wandering Tundra had stumbled into their camp, injured but as far as they could tell free of the plague. She told them of a safe haven she had been trying to reach within the realm of the Lightweaver. Of a doctor hunting far and wide for a cure to this hateful plague. Hope blossomed once more in Rylan's heart, and he immediately gathered his mother and remaining clan to him. They would strike out together this time across the Abiding Boneyard, and make it to the safety of the sun-strewn lands. And when the gates of the Hewn City came into view two weeks later, Rylan almost wept with joy. Months ago, he had found his way home against all odds, but home wasn't the same. It wasn't home. It was the place his mother lived, the place his father had made, but it wasn't where his heart lied. He loved his mother but he knew, he knew that what called for him to keep moving as he wandered, was something that he would one day find. He [i]needed [/i]to find it. Now, with his remaining clan safe, Rylan could finally find what had been calling to him all this time. Cheng Lung knew too, knew he would leave, always hoping he would stay and rooting for him on his quest anyways. He found breakfast and a little bag of goodies beside his rented nest when he woke as the light crested over the horizon. With a sloppy dragon kiss to his mother's forehead while she slept, he left. This time, he stopped looking over his shoulder and wondering what might have been. He had something better to do. Wondering what might be. A week later, wandering the lands outside the Hewn City, he found Korcari and her group...and realized that this was where he belonged. Pledging to never leave their side, the young Guardian joined their quest, now more eager than ever to hunt down the source of this plague.[/font][/columns] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/aNUn1ku.png[/img] [columns][url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=46245492] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/462455/46245492_350.png[/img] [/url][nextcol] [img]https://i.imgur.com/YWDYP1n.png[/img] [font=Bodoni MT Condensed] [b]Name:[/b] Baphomet [b]Occupation[/b]: Perfumer [b]Mate[/b]: N/A [b]Background[/b]: TBA[/font][/columns] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/aNUn1ku.png[/img] [columns][url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=46100269] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/461003/46100269_350.png[/img] [/url][nextcol] [img]https://i.imgur.com/YWDYP1n.png[/img] [font=Bodoni MT Condensed] [b]Name:[/b] Set [b]Occupation[/b]: TBA [b]Mate[/b]: N/A [b]Background[/b]: TBA[/font][/columns] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/aNUn1ku.png[/img] [columns][url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=48697523] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/486976/48697523_350.png[/img] [/url][nextcol] [img]https://i.imgur.com/YWDYP1n.png[/img] [font=Bodoni MT Condensed] [b]Name:[/b] Vidar [b]Occupation[/b]: TBA [b]Mate[/b]: N/A [b]Background[/b]: TBA[/font][/columns] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/aNUn1ku.png[/img] [columns][url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=51035039] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/510351/51035039_350.png[/img] [/url][nextcol] [img]https://i.imgur.com/YWDYP1n.png[/img] [font=Bodoni MT Condensed] [b]Name:[/b] Arhu [b]Occupation[/b]: TBA [b]Mate[/b]: N/A [b]Background[/b]: TBD[/font][/columns] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/aNUn1ku.png[/img] [columns]DRAGON HERE[nextcol] [img]https://i.imgur.com/YWDYP1n.png[/img] [font=Bodoni MT Condensed] [b]Name:[/b] N/A [b]Occupation[/b]: [b]Mate[/b]: N/A [b]Background[/b]:[/font][/columns] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/1bMxWNe.png[/img] [img]https://fontmeme.com/permalink/180205/5600b1e398832d5ff9f885bcda35e3b4.png[/img] [img]https://78.media.tumblr.com/fc778ae992eb5c68aaa0e907c562f4f6/tumblr_nuw6hehhTN1rn9ge0o2_400.gif[/img][/center]

SarcasticHawke

9506

February 05, 2018 11:52:52

As the plague decimates the land, a group of survivors has holed up in the Hewn City under the watch of a local Plague Doctor. Determined to find the cure, he enlists the help of a small band of misfits who are willing to go out into the dangers beyond the city and hunt for not only food and supplies, but answers as well...Will they be able to determine the cause of this disease? Or will they all succumb to its grasp?

Please note that this section DOES contain SPOILERS for who has died and who is still alive. I found it most difficult and unorganized to keep all the dragons who have come and gone during the Nuzlocke on this singular post, and as such have edited it to show only the current cast. If you do not mind spoilers, feel free to check below! Otherwise, just skip past this section entirely.

Name: Korcari
Occupation: Rogue
Mate: None

Background: A former scavenger, Korcari used to travel all across Sornieth to ply her family's goods. As a hatchling her mother abandoned her clutch to run off with a younger lover, and as such her father took her and her sister and joined up with a group of merchant caravans. All their schooling was thus received while traveling.

Korcari learned a lot on the road, including how to fight and sneak undetected in and out of places she shouldn't have been. She learned the best places to scavenge for useful items and how to barter, how to avoid ancient traps and read numerous old languages.

It wasn't long before most of the merchants came to her when they needed something. Whether it was to haggle with a particularly stubborn customer or delve into a newfound ruin to search for artifacts, the Imperial would do it gladly. Back then she still had a stomach for adventure and the thrill of danger.

When the plague hit, it devastated their caravan. The local wolf packs had been growing restless and one night they ambushed the merchants as they sat by their fires. Korcari's sister, Fiora, was the first to go, having succumbed to the disease after getting bitten trying to fend them off. The Imperial had to watch as her sister shrieked and foamed, contorting her head to try and chew off the restraints they'd put her in.

After the third day her father had to drive a knife through Fiora's heart to end her suffering...

On the fourth, the rest of the caravan party finally succumbed as well. Korcari will never forget how many friends she had to slay that day...how many she had to fight in order to escape. Her father, brave Wildclaw that he was, had been injured during the first raid and told her to run while he held them off. Though she refused to leave him, Lobelio insisted, and the young Imperial eventually ran with tears in her eyes.

His screams as he was torn apart still echo in her nightmares.

Now, Korcari is a quiet Imperial who worked as a thief for hire for a time, until she met Keanu and Ronja in the Hewn City. Upon hearing Doctor Devorak's request for assistance, she resolved to join with them in order to help find a cure. No more dragons need die of this disease if she can help it.

Name: Eileen
Occupation: Plague Doctor
Mate: N/A

Background: TBA

Name: Lux
Occupation: TBA
Mate: N/A

Background: TBA

Name: Rylan
Occupation: TBA
Mate: N/A

Background: Rylan is the kind of guy who snorts out bubbles when he laughs, and kisses his friends on the cheek goodbye. For this, he has earned the moniker "Rylan the Joyful".

His father, Ambarc, had been a main founder of his birth clan, but...he only knew stories of him. He went to serve in the army right after Rylan hatched...and never returned. Rylan knew why he was born; his father wanted to leave one last gift to the clan he had made. Despite this, his mother told him that he didn't have to change the world or even a clan. He didn't have to be the best. He just had to be him.

However, that was until the plague hit. It was nothing like the virulent strains of illness that already ran through the Rotrock Rim and its surrounding areas. This was something darker...something sinister that caused the minds of his clanmates to shatter as they writhed and screeched, turning them into mindless beasts filled with rage and an insatiable hunger for death.

It was all he and his mother could do to rally their remaining clanmates and barricade themselves closer to the Wyrmwood. The days passed sleeplessly, the scent of fear and blood overwhelming in their tiny little camp. Slowly, one after another, he saw dragons and hatchlings alike begin to succumb to the foul illness,

It was then when Rylan realized what he must do.

In order to save his clan, he needed to leave it.

Growing up, Rylan had always wanted to be what his father wanted of him; to make his clan better. However, staying at his home now meant he never could improve it like his father had before him. To make the clan mighty and give it blood and wings, he would have to leave it and find a cure. No longer wanting to be in his father's shadow and ready to fly away from home, Rylan groomed his mother's scales, nuzzled her neck, then left.

It was a perilous journey: he had forgotten how dangerous it was to traverse the Abiding Boneyard alone. Especially now with those infected by the plague stalking through the sun-bleached skeletons...

Fearing being lost to time, lost to eternity, he kept walking, desperate to find a new home. He couldn't find his way back from there. He was ready to do something, anything, to leave his mark. He didn't want to make it through all this and still be lost to eternity anyways.

The days stretched and Rylan marked the path with his claws, despairing whenever he realized he had ended up circling back around. He tried to fix it until one day, he couldn't. All he had was the way his feet went, even if something told him they were going the wrong way, that the other way held the future.

Yet what was he supposed to do? He was never going to make it. Giving up would be easier, but he wasn't ready for that either.

Trying something new...could be done.

When his mama's nest came into view a few days later, Rylan was a tired, happy dragon who eagerly ran to her and held her close.

She was now one of only twelve survivors left of the once mighty clan.

Settling down into his old nest that night, Rylan found that sleep would not come to him. He had failed. He had been unable to find a cure, to even find a source of this plague, and had instead almost died himself.

The guardian was disgusted with himself.

More weeks passed, when luck seemed to smile once more on the desperate clan. A wandering Tundra had stumbled into their camp, injured but as far as they could tell free of the plague. She told them of a safe haven she had been trying to reach within the realm of the Lightweaver. Of a doctor hunting far and wide for a cure to this hateful plague.

Hope blossomed once more in Rylan's heart, and he immediately gathered his mother and remaining clan to him. They would strike out together this time across the Abiding Boneyard, and make it to the safety of the sun-strewn lands.

And when the gates of the Hewn City came into view two weeks later, Rylan almost wept with joy.

Months ago, he had found his way home against all odds, but home wasn't the same. It wasn't home. It was the place his mother lived, the place his father had made, but it wasn't where his heart lied. He loved his mother but he knew, he knew that what called for him to keep moving as he wandered, was something that he would one day find. He needed to find it.

Now, with his remaining clan safe, Rylan could finally find what had been calling to him all this time.

Cheng Lung knew too, knew he would leave, always hoping he would stay and rooting for him on his quest anyways. He found breakfast and a little bag of goodies beside his rented nest when he woke as the light crested over the horizon. With a sloppy dragon kiss to his mother's forehead while she slept, he left.

This time, he stopped looking over his shoulder and wondering what might have been.

He had something better to do.

Wondering what might be.

A week later, wandering the lands outside the Hewn City, he found Korcari and her group...and realized that this was where he belonged. Pledging to never leave their side, the young Guardian joined their quest, now more eager than ever to hunt down the source of this plague.

Name: Baphomet
Occupation: Perfumer
Mate: N/A
Background: TBA

Name: Set
Occupation: TBA
Mate: N/A
Background: TBA

Name: Vidar
Occupation: TBA
Mate: N/A
Background: TBA

Name: Arhu
Occupation: TBA
Mate: N/A
Background: TBD

DRAGON HERE

Name: N/A
Occupation:
Mate: N/A
Background:

Last edited on Jul 29, 2019 12:13:28 by SarcasticHawke

[center][img]https://fontmeme.com/permalink/180205/900286bd10c569ad4c1dbbecbf8a668b.png[/img][/center] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/rtJ7pos.gif[/img][/center] [font=Bodoni MT Condensed]There is a graveyard now in the Hewn City...many of the tombs still have a fresh layer of soil on them. Once the doctor is finished with his autopsies, each body is carefully sewn back up and the burial rights performed before it is placed deep beneath the earth. To those who live behind the walls, it is a reminder of all they have lost...and sadly, it is ever-expanding...[/font] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/Io8rOZF.png[/img][/center] [columns][url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=39049879] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/390499/39049879_350.png[/img] [/url][nextcol] [img]https://i.imgur.com/lN0pyyh.png[/img] [font=Bodoni MT Condensed] [b]Name:[/b] Ronja [b]Death[/b]: Winterman Bowman [b]Lifespan[/b]: Lvl 1-8[/font][/columns] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/aNUn1ku.png[/img][/center] [columns][url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=39293407] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/392935/39293407_350.png[/img] [/url][nextcol] [img]https://i.imgur.com/lN0pyyh.png[/img] [font=Bodoni MT Condensed] [b]Name:[/b] Fletcher [b]Death[/b]: Centaur Archer [b]Lifespan[/b]: 1-7[/font][/columns] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/aNUn1ku.png[/img][/center] [columns][url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=41804680] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/418047/41804680_350.png[/img] [/url][nextcol] [img]https://i.imgur.com/lN0pyyh.png[/img] [font=Bodoni MT Condensed] [b]Name:[/b] Myrtle [b]Death[/b]: Greatshell [b]Lifespan[/b]: 1-7[/font][/columns] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/aNUn1ku.png[/img][/center] [columns][url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=39047026] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/390471/39047026_350.png[/img] [/url][nextcol] [img]https://i.imgur.com/lN0pyyh.png[/img] [font=Bodoni MT Condensed] [b]Name:[/b] Keanu [b]Death[/b]: Tunnel Hydra [b]Lifespan[/b]: 1-18[/font][/columns] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/aNUn1ku.png[/img][/center] [columns][url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=41230315] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/412304/41230315_350.png[/img] [/url][nextcol] [img]https://i.imgur.com/lN0pyyh.png[/img] [font=Bodoni MT Condensed] [b]Name:[/b] Haleth [b]Death[/b]: Mirkbottom Gulls [b]Lifespan[/b]: 1-14[/font][/columns] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/aNUn1ku.png[/img][/center] [columns][url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=43188195] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/431882/43188195_350.png[/img] [/url][nextcol] [img]https://i.imgur.com/lN0pyyh.png[/img] [font=Bodoni MT Condensed] [b]Name:[/b] Orias [b]Death[/b]: Maned Cerdae [b]Lifespan[/b]: 1-10[/font][/columns] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/aNUn1ku.png[/img][/center] [columns][url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=44054352] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/440544/44054352_350.png[/img] [/url][nextcol] [img]https://i.imgur.com/lN0pyyh.png[/img] [font=Bodoni MT Condensed] [b]Name:[/b] Glory [b]Death[/b]: Surge Priest [b]Lifespan[/b]: 1-13[/font][/columns] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/aNUn1ku.png[/img][/center] [columns][url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=42304459] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/423045/42304459_350.png[/img] [/url][nextcol] [img]https://i.imgur.com/lN0pyyh.png[/img] [font=Bodoni MT Condensed] [b]Name:[/b] Navara [b]Death[/b]: Petal Jumper [b]Lifespan[/b]: 1-15[/font][/columns] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/aNUn1ku.png[/img][/center] [columns][url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=42438200] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/424383/42438200_350.png[/img] [/url][nextcol] [img]https://i.imgur.com/lN0pyyh.png[/img] [font=Bodoni MT Condensed] [b]Name:[/b] Abrasax [b]Death[/b]: Proto Manticore [b]Lifespan[/b]: 1-10 [/font][/columns] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/jShWOj6.png[/img][/center] [columns][url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=44022962] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/440230/44022962_350.png[/img] [/url][nextcol] [img]https://i.imgur.com/lN0pyyh.png[/img] [font=Bodoni MT Condensed] [b]Name:[/b] Percy [b]Death[/b]: Goldenplains Poodle Mith [b]Lifespan[/b]: 1-14[/font][/columns] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/jShWOj6.png[/img][/center] [columns][url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=42008408] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/420085/42008408_350.png[/img] [/url][nextcol] [img]https://i.imgur.com/lN0pyyh.png[/img] [font=Bodoni MT Condensed] [b]Name:[/b] Perren [b]Death[/b]: Petal Jumper [b]Lifespan[/b]: 1-18 [b]Eulogy[/b]:[/font][/columns] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/jShWOj6.png[/img][/center] [columns][img]https://i.imgur.com/NgPe51g.png[/img][nextcol] [img]https://i.imgur.com/lN0pyyh.png[/img] [font=Bodoni MT Condensed] [b]Name:[/b] N/A [b]Death[/b]: N/A [b]Lifespan[/b]: N/A [b]Eulogy[/b]:[/font][/columns] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/jShWOj6.png[/img][/center] [columns][img]https://i.imgur.com/NgPe51g.png[/img][nextcol] [img]https://i.imgur.com/lN0pyyh.png[/img] [font=Bodoni MT Condensed] [b]Name:[/b] N/A [b]Death[/b]: N/A [b]Lifespan[/b]: N/A [b]Eulogy[/b]:[/font][/columns] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/jShWOj6.png[/img][/center] [center][img]https://fontmeme.com/permalink/180205/8e67c118e33b19645c00566a560cf017.png[/img] 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SarcasticHawke

9506

February 05, 2018 12:27:01

There is a graveyard now in the Hewn City...many of the tombs still have a fresh layer of soil on them. Once the doctor is finished with his autopsies, each body is carefully sewn back up and the burial rights performed before it is placed deep beneath the earth. To those who live behind the walls, it is a reminder of all they have lost...and sadly, it is ever-expanding...

Name: Ronja
Death: Winterman Bowman
Lifespan: Lvl 1-8

Name: Fletcher
Death: Centaur Archer
Lifespan: 1-7

Name: Myrtle
Death: Greatshell
Lifespan: 1-7

Name: Keanu
Death: Tunnel Hydra
Lifespan: 1-18

Name: Haleth
Death: Mirkbottom Gulls
Lifespan: 1-14

Name: Orias
Death: Maned Cerdae
Lifespan: 1-10

Name: Glory
Death: Surge Priest
Lifespan: 1-13

Name: Navara
Death: Petal Jumper
Lifespan: 1-15

Name: Abrasax
Death: Proto Manticore
Lifespan: 1-10

Name: Percy
Death: Goldenplains Poodle Mith
Lifespan: 1-14

Name: Perren
Death: Petal Jumper
Lifespan: 1-18
Eulogy:

Name: N/A
Death: N/A
Lifespan: N/A
Eulogy:

Last edited on Jul 20, 2019 11:19:58 by SarcasticHawke

[center][img]https://fontmeme.com/permalink/180205/380aa16b4829bde6d88c418c6368be17.png[/img][/center] [font=Bodoni MT Condensed]These are characters who, while not part of the Nuzlocke team, feature heavily in the story and lore. They are part of my main lair and will not be participating in any coliseum battles or breeding. [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/Io8rOZF.png[/img][/center] [columns][url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=34049058] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/340491/34049058_350.png[/img] [/url][nextcol][img]https://i.imgur.com/16HEBXz.png[/img] [font=Bodoni MT Condensed][b]Name[/b]: Julian Devorak [b]Occupation[/b]: Plague Doctor [b]Role[/b]: Doctor Julian Devorak oversees most of what happens in the Hewn City. His clinic is open at all hours of the day, and you can almost always find him there tending to the sick and wounded. He is also the one who performs the autopsies on those who have succumbed to the disease... Julian is determined to locate the cause of this plague and create a cure, and has enlisted the help of a small band of adventurers to do it. Though he itches to go out and search himself, his clinic needs him, and as a result he can only offer guidance to those brave enough to help him.[/font][/columns] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/aNUn1ku.png[/img][/center] [columns][url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=37205513] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/372056/37205513_350.png[/img] [/url][nextcol][img]https://i.imgur.com/16HEBXz.png[/img] [font=Bodoni MT Condensed][b]Name[/b]: Zenyatta [b]Occupation[/b]: Monk [b]Role[/b]: One of only a handful of monks who survived the massacre at Keanu's temple. Now the de facto leader of their group, Zenyatta is an adept healing mage who has pledged his loyalty to the survivors in the Hewn City. He can often be found either in the makeshift temple the monks created, the clinic, or the cemetery performing burial rights. He is a soft-spoken Spiral with wisdom beyond his years. Zenyatta's goal is to ease as much suffering as he can, and to perhaps live to see the day the plague is finally eradicated.[/columns] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/aNUn1ku.png[/img][/center] [columns][url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=39251365] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/392514/39251365_350.png[/img] [/url][nextcol][img]https://i.imgur.com/16HEBXz.png[/img] [b]Name[/b]: Micolash [b]Occupation[/b]: TBA [b]Role[/b]: TBA[/columns] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/aNUn1ku.png[/img][/center] [columns][img]https://i.imgur.com/FhZFPC7.png[/img][nextcol][img]https://i.imgur.com/16HEBXz.png[/img] [b]Name[/b]: TBA [b]Occupation[/b]: TBA [b]Role[/b]: TBA[/columns] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/jShWOj6.png[/img] [img]https://78.media.tumblr.com/c1e6bb59eb3094a6a63f201603ca7e83/tumblr_nm4yag4M9L1rn9ge0o1_400.gif[/img][/center]

SarcasticHawke

9506

February 05, 2018 12:42:43

These are characters who, while not part of the Nuzlocke team, feature heavily in the story and lore. They are part of my main lair and will not be participating in any coliseum battles or breeding.

Name: Julian Devorak
Occupation: Plague Doctor

Role: Doctor Julian Devorak oversees most of what happens in the Hewn City. His clinic is open at all hours of the day, and you can almost always find him there tending to the sick and wounded. He is also the one who performs the autopsies on those who have succumbed to the disease...

Julian is determined to locate the cause of this plague and create a cure, and has enlisted the help of a small band of adventurers to do it. Though he itches to go out and search himself, his clinic needs him, and as a result he can only offer guidance to those brave enough to help him.

Name: Zenyatta
Occupation: Monk

Role: One of only a handful of monks who survived the massacre at Keanu's temple. Now the de facto leader of their group, Zenyatta is an adept healing mage who has pledged his loyalty to the survivors in the Hewn City. He can often be found either in the makeshift temple the monks created, the clinic, or the cemetery performing burial rights.

He is a soft-spoken Spiral with wisdom beyond his years. Zenyatta's goal is to ease as much suffering as he can, and to perhaps live to see the day the plague is finally eradicated.

Name: Micolash
Occupation: TBA
Role: TBA

Name: TBA
Occupation: TBA
Role: TBA

Last edited on Jul 19, 2018 20:28:19 by SarcasticHawke

[center][img]https://s18.postimg.cc/8ky1scxvd/DBR5.png[/img] [img]https://fontmeme.com/permalink/180205/72fb304d9210cc4b9a307259ca1626dc.png[/img][/center] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/Io8rOZF.png[/img][/center] [font=Bodoni MT Condensed]The basic premise is that there is a plague spreading throughout Sornieth. It is spread through the contact of infected bodily fluids, such as saliva and blood, and the symptoms have a rapid onset. Fatigue, unquenchable thirst, and full-body aches are the first stage. The second stage involves coughing up black blood, sensitivity to light, and uncontrollable fits of rage. The third stage is when the dragon loses all sense of self and becomes a slavering beast, attempting to scratch and bite and eat anything in their vicinity. Basically, think a rabies virus meets zombie virus, only the dead bodies don't get up afterwards. Once you're dead you're dead. The plague is extremely contagious and 100% lethal when contracted. Beastclans and other animals in Sornieth appear to be immune overall, aside from an increase in aggression, and are simply carriers. This is why, say, an Ember Mouse can take down a fully grown Imperial: through an infected bite or scratch, the plague is passed on and the dragon gets sick and dies. Infected dragons can also spread the plague this way. It never made sense to me why such tiny creatures could kill dragons in Nuzlockes, so I essentially went "ZOMBIE PLAGUE" and here we are... Now, the bodies of the dead are sold to my Plague Doctor (a recurring, non participant dragon used only for lore) so that he can autopsy them in hopes of finding a cure. Hence why you get paid when a dragons dies; he's providing the coin for the body: [center][url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=34049058][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/340491/34049058_350.png[/img][/url][/center] Eggs also have a chance of contracting the plague, and leaving the resulting hatchling stillborn. Julian will also pay for these bodies, and this explains why the offspring have a chance of dying during the coin flip. I won't spoil what is causing the plague, but suffice it to say most people think it is Plaguebringer, as her elemental children seem more resistant to it. However she denies it and insists that it must be something else. [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/jShWOj6.png[/img] [img]http://pa1.narvii.com/6228/f5063b60d246f158a87cf6ba6e4b57005ce31fd9_hq.gif[/img][/center]

SarcasticHawke

9506

February 05, 2018 12:42:46

The basic premise is that there is a plague spreading throughout Sornieth. It is spread through the contact of infected bodily fluids, such as saliva and blood, and the symptoms have a rapid onset. Fatigue, unquenchable thirst, and full-body aches are the first stage. The second stage involves coughing up black blood, sensitivity to light, and uncontrollable fits of rage. The third stage is when the dragon loses all sense of self and becomes a slavering beast, attempting to scratch and bite and eat anything in their vicinity. Basically, think a rabies virus meets zombie virus, only the dead bodies don't get up afterwards. Once you're dead you're dead.

The plague is extremely contagious and 100% lethal when contracted. Beastclans and other animals in Sornieth appear to be immune overall, aside from an increase in aggression, and are simply carriers. This is why, say, an Ember Mouse can take down a fully grown Imperial: through an infected bite or scratch, the plague is passed on and the dragon gets sick and dies. Infected dragons can also spread the plague this way. It never made sense to me why such tiny creatures could kill dragons in Nuzlockes, so I essentially went "ZOMBIE PLAGUE" and here we are...

Now, the bodies of the dead are sold to my Plague Doctor (a recurring, non participant dragon used only for lore) so that he can autopsy them in hopes of finding a cure. Hence why you get paid when a dragons dies; he's providing the coin for the body:

Eggs also have a chance of contracting the plague, and leaving the resulting hatchling stillborn. Julian will also pay for these bodies, and this explains why the offspring have a chance of dying during the coin flip.

I won't spoil what is causing the plague, but suffice it to say most people think it is Plaguebringer, as her elemental children seem more resistant to it. However she denies it and insists that it must be something else.

Last edited on Jul 19, 2018 20:31:08 by SarcasticHawke

[center][img]https://s18.postimg.cc/plgy17qe1/DR5.png[/img] [img]https://fontmeme.com/permalink/180205/7f12b70fab096eed5e64662a93b528ba.png[/img][/center] [font=Bodoni MT Condensed]If you wish to be pinged for new updates to the nuzlocke, such as lore writing as well as new additions and deaths, simply comment down below requesting to be put on your desired list! If at any time you would like to stop receiving updates, let me know and I will remove your name from it right away. [b]GENERAL PINGLIST[/b]- (For all updates!)[size=2] [columns][list] • @ firnenfire • @ MagicSpyglass • @ Johan • @ Chraelix • @ Pteranodon • @ Dragondreamer • @ StrudleNugget • @ Riff • @ Eversnow • @ myriadofstars • @ Wintersphoenix[/list][nextcol][list] • @ MoonlightWolf19 • @ Alwaid • @ TropicalDiamonds • @ LadyIce • @ Justdevon • @ pennythedragon • @ Dathomir • @ mmuted • @ kijauni • @ Xayxayx [/list][/columns] [font=Bodoni MT Condensed] [b]LORE PINGLIST[/b]- (For writing updates only!)[size=2] [columns][list] • @ [/list][nextcol][list] • @ [/list][/columns] [font=Bodoni MT Condensed] [b]NEW DRAGON PINGLIST[/b]- (For the addition of new dragons only!)[size=2] [columns][list] • @ [/list][nextcol][list] • @ [/list][/columns] [font=Bodoni MT Condensed] [b]DEATH PINGLIST[/b]- (For the death of a dragon only!)[size=2] [columns][list] • @ foxshapedshadows[/list][nextcol][list] • @ Eiira [/list][/columns] [font=Bodoni MT Condensed][b]CLUTCH PINGLIST[/b]- (For the birth of a dragon only!)[size=2] [columns][list] • @ Pteranodon • @ Eiira[/list][nextcol][list] • @ LadyIce [/list][/columns]

SarcasticHawke

9506

February 05, 2018 12:43:36

If you wish to be pinged for new updates to the nuzlocke, such as lore writing as well as new additions and deaths, simply comment down below requesting to be put on your desired list! If at any time you would like to stop receiving updates, let me know and I will remove your name from it right away.

GENERAL PINGLIST- (For all updates!)

LORE PINGLIST- (For writing updates only!)

• @

NEW DRAGON PINGLIST- (For the addition of new dragons only!)

• @

DEATH PINGLIST- (For the death of a dragon only!)

• @ foxshapedshadows

• @ Eiira

CLUTCH PINGLIST- (For the birth of a dragon only!)

• @ LadyIce

Last edited on Dec 12, 2019 15:06:22 by SarcasticHawke

[center][img]https://fontmeme.com/permalink/180205/55c80f1b86491147f50dc114f1cc7125.png[/img] [item=glass knife] [b]Category[/b]: Trinket [url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/qnc/2372898/2#post_31628495]Next Day[/url][/center] Gathering today, it seems, right off the bat. Didn't get anything too interesting, unfortunately. Sold whatever I wasn't keeping. [b]Total Gathered[/b]: 1,511 from selling Trinkets 1,360 from selling Materials [b]Treasure Total[/b]: 2,871 [b]Gem Total[/b]: 0

SarcasticHawke